Bee Hive Homes Expands In Utah

Daily Herald:

Seeing his father, a Korean War veteran, die of emphysema in a poorly managed Veterans Affairs nursing home in Ohio motivated Joseph Gebhardt of Pleasant Grove to switch from building luxury homes to building assisted-living homes in Utah.

“We saw how run-down, old and smelly the Ohio facility was,” he said. “It’s not the kind of home you’d want your parents to stay in. But my dad had no choice because the insurance monies were running out. He had a lot of lung surgery because of his emphysema. That’s when we decided we would do things differently, build a much better quality of nursing home.”

The opportunity came when Bee Hive Homes, a Boise, Idaho-based franchisor of assisted-living homes, offered to let Gebhardt and his wife, Cathy, take over the franchise rights to a 10-bed nursing home at 60 E. 1200 North in Pleasant Grove and a 13-bed home at 272 W. 500 North in American Fork.

The two properties were on the verge of being foreclosed on by Celtic Bank of Salt Lake City, after the previous franchisee defaulted on mortgage payments to the bank.

“These two homes were actually the first two Bee Hive homes started in Utah. We took over the loans, remodelled the homes and Bee Hive sold us the franchise last month,” Gebhardt said.

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